(sometimes lowercase) to bring under the influence or domination of the Soviet Union.
(often lowercase) to impose or institute a system of government similar to that of the Soviet Union.
to bring (a country, person, etc) under Soviet control or influence
to cause (a country) to conform to the Soviet model in its social, political, and economic structure
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“Railways were the way to live in two worlds, one which was Sovietized and the other was not Sovietized,” Yaroslav Hrytsak, professor of history at the Ukrainian Catholic University, told me.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
There were no boundaries or guard posts, but it was a de facto prison, a Sovietized "Truman Show" within which Oswald lived most of his life in Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2013
These are either flown in by Russian planes or trucked in over the Sian-AIma Ata highway, linking China with Soviet territory, or the Lanchow-Ulan Bator Khoto highway, connecting China with Sovietized Outer Mongolia.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had achieved nationhood only after World War I. Now they wanted national boundaries they could defend, and that, to them, meant all of Sovietized Karelia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally, there were the ominous examples of Sovietized Turkestan and Azerbaidjan.
From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop
Reports from Paris said that Radek, who is a Pole by birth, has been placed in charge of Sovietizing the Russian slice of Poland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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